This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > I am looking to install a new rack server this coming weekend, and > since I don't really want to worry about backups to revive a dead > system (data backups are done over the network), I am looking into a > RAID 1 configuration. > > I am currently in the process to decide between software and hardware > RAID. Linux has a full RAID system built in, and yet there are RAID > controllers one can buy. Why would I choose to pay money and get > a hardware controller? It appears that hardware raid (from what google turned up just now - I'd investigate further before taking my advice (^8 ) is slightly slower, but more robust, and uses less clock cycles to run. I guess an analogy would be winmodems using the OS to perform what can be (should be?) a hardware function. > Also, since I can't find anything on http://lhd.zdnet.com/, do any of > you have positive or negative things to say about the following RAID > controllers and Debian GNU/Linux? > > - Adaptec 1200A Raid > - Promise FastTrak133TX2000 UDMA/133 Raid > - Promise Ultra133TX2 UDMA/133 > - DawiControl DC-133 Raid Can't help you here - google isn't returning much. Steve -- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." -- Steven Wright
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